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Originally Posted by DeepWater
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Those are the rankings, not the actual match data. Hopefully the match data is correct.
Anyway, here's a new one. This is team age versus scores, and AVERAGE team age versus score. Note the difference. The 1st one takes the combined experience of an alliance and what their score was, while the second one simply looks at how old each individual team was, and how they did. The extent of the boxes goes from the 25th to 75th percentile. The lines above the boxes go to the 95th (I think) percentile. The dots above them are outliers. You can see that age isn't a very good predictor of performance. But in the first graph, you see that the sum of multiple old teams does make a noticeable difference.
Edit: Keep in mind that there will be a larger number of averages in the middle of the graph, since it isn't likely to pick mutiple teams that are all very old or very young. Therefore, it may not be that 6-7 average age alliances are better, it may just be that they are more plentiful. A histogram would be able to show if this is what's happening, but I left my excel file at work and will have to try tomorrow.